She is a photojournalist/videographer. Sanchez recently graduated from the University of Arizona.

She is a Chips Quinn Scholar, one of the industry's most prestigious programs for new journalists.

On our staff, interns have all the responsibility of a full-time staffer.

Sanchez started to develop her interest in journalism by covering a wrestling meet her sophomore year at Franklin High School in El Paso, Texas. She enjoyed it so much and did such a good job with the photos, that she eventually became the photo editor for the school paper and the yearbook.

Sanchez enjoys covering sports events because of the action and opportunity for photos to tell the story and capture emotions. Her least favorite sports to shoot photos of: tennis and cross country. Her favorites: basketball and football.

Sanchez has done a good job of preparing herself for her time on our staff by gaining plenty of real world experience.

She worked as a photojournalist for Tuscon Weekly, University of Arizona Athletics and the Arizona Daily Star. She was also the photo editor and video editor during her time at the Daily Wildcat, the university newspaper.

She studied Arabic at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, in a summer program sponsored by the Middle Eastern and North African studies program of the University of Arizona.

This summer, she hopes to cover a wide variety of news, feature and sports photo and video assignments. She said one of her goals this summer is to improve her video skills.

Sanchez also brings another element to her visual storytelling — her training and background in art.

"I went to the Savannah College of Art and Design for my freshman year of college. That's where I took 3-D design classes, life drawing classes and a lot of classes around still art," she said.

"So for those classes, a lot of the time we had to look through thumbnails while doing any drawings. And that helped me to see everything in a frame. It sounds funny but that is how it came out." Sanchez said.

Sanchez said when she looks at her photojournalism, she checks many of the basics that make for good art: lighting, color, texture, facial expressions and overall balance.

Please join me in welcoming Sanchez to the news staff and to St. Cloud. One thing that has jumped out to this journalist who has spent almost all of her time in the southwest: How green everything is in our area. And if this rain keeps up, it will only be greener.

Printing to shift to Princeton

Last week, the Times announced we would be shifting our newspaper printing from Gannett Offset in Maple Grove to ECM Printing in Princeton.

The reason? Gannett Offset is closing its facility in Maple Grove.

The change in publishing operations won't affect our products. No jobs were lost in St. Cloud with the move.

ECM prints more than 49 daily and weekly newspapers. The Princeton plant also prints the New York Times.

The change is effective Aug. 2.

Rock Walk rocks

Thanks to everyone who took part in our Rock Walk Thursday evening at Quarry Park & Nature Preserve.

We were thrilled by having more than 300 people come to listen to Times geology columnist Robert Wichman.

While the crowd size limited the ability to hear his fascinating observations, it was still a great night to see a great natural asset in our community.

A big thanks to the Stearns County Parks Department and, of course, Wichman, for making the event happen. Readers said they want another one. We will work on making that happen.

For the next Rock Walk, we will have smaller groups to allow people to hear the experts. Wichman suggests we have the next one in late summer or fall.

Walk in Quarry Park

Join Times staffers and other residents at noon Tuesday for a Walk in the Park Event at Quarry Park & Nature Preserve in Waite Park.

Stearns County Parks Director Peter Theismann will lead the walk. People will be able to see the new swimming quarry at the park.

The Walk in the Park series continues to attract readers eager to visit parks, have a 30-minute walk during noontime and chat with our news staffers.

On Tuesday, between 20-30 people walked with us at Lake George, including St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis and Park and Recreation Director Scott Zlotnik.

Do you have a question about the Times? You can ask St. Cloud Times Executive Editor John Bodette, P.O. Box 768, St. Cloud, MN 56302-0768; or call him at 255-8760; or email him at jbodette@stcloudtimes.com. Follow him on Google Plus under jlbodette; on Twitter @jlbodette and on Facebook, John Bodette — St. Cloud Times.